Florentina Holzinger’s bloody Sancta was criticised by Austrian bishops and is now a sellout in Germany

Eighteen theatregoers at Stuttgart’s state opera required medical treatment for severe nausea over the weekend after watching a performance that included live piercing, unsimulated sexual intercourse and copious amounts of fake and real blood.

  • nutsack@lemmy.worldEnglish
    395·
    12 hours ago

    why would you sign up for something like this if you’re a goddamn pussy

    • CoolMatt@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Why would you shove a toothpick under your toenail and kick the wall as hard as you can if you’re a goddamn pussy

    • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      If you’ve never seen copious amounts of blood before, you might not know you’re a goddamn pussy. I didn’t know blood would make me queasy until I was trying to clean glass and blood from the floor before my dogs ran in to see the commotion as the skin on the backs of 2 fingers was flapping and undoing all my blood cleanup. It damaged something in my nail base, too, because I have a scar that ends at a permanent ridge in my nail extrusion.

    • Tiefling IRL@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      161·
      6 hours ago

      It looks like there were warnings in advance too

      Visitors to the adults-only show were alerted in advance to a long list of warnings for potential triggers including incense, loud noises, explicit sexual acts and sexual violence.

      FWIW, I’m a sideshow performer and have been in shows that were exactly like this (though I don’t do full nudity or piercing). There’s always a content warning at the top of the show. Though I’m surprised (but not) they allowed live sex. Even where I live, which has pretty lenient blue laws, live sex is a hard no.

      Also, this sounds amazing

      The version that unsettled audience members in Stuttgart this year supplanted the original musical performance with naked nuns rollerskating on a movable half-pipe at the centre of the stage, a wall of crucified naked bodies and a lesbian priest saying mass.